{"id":263,"date":"2008-08-03T11:41:27","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T15:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/2008\/fat-girls-and-skinny-bitches\/"},"modified":"2008-08-03T12:12:18","modified_gmt":"2008-08-03T16:12:18","slug":"fat-girls-and-skinny-bitches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/2008\/fat-girls-and-skinny-bitches\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat girls and skinny bitches"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can’t we all just get along?
\nAfter spending the morning on blogher, reading about the NYT relegation of the blogher confererence<\/a> to the style section and whether “mommy-blogging”<\/a> is a term of empowerment or a mechanism for belittling, I came to Joy Nash’s “A Fat Rant” on Gena’s On the Stoop<\/a> (and from there to LaurieStar’s response, “A thin rant.”) This fem-centered morning has me thinking a lot about the way we treat each other, the way we think of “women’s issues” and “women’s places,” be it in the media, the blogosphere or the mall.<\/p>\n

YouTube – A Fat Rant<\/p>\n

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YouTube – A Thin Rant<\/p>\n

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I’m neither Joy’s size nor Laurie’s (though closer to Joy’s by far!) and I admit being one of the eyerollers at the tiny ones. More because “it’s not fair” – a big thing with me, I realize. It’s not fair that skinny girls are (See more after the jump.)
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